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From: dlawyer@balboa.eng.uci.edu (David Lawyer)
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Subject: 8 Bit character sets (was Re: Where is isascii(c)?)
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Date: 2 Feb 90 09:16:33 GMT
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In article <1990Feb1.172916.16504@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>
>How you set the values for the high characters [above ascii DL] is a good 
>question.  All
>zeros appears to be legitimate, and might be the simplest thing.  (I'm
>tempted to say that the values should follow ISO Latin 1, but that's
>asking for trouble since lots of hardware isn't set up to deal with
>ISO Latin 1 yet.)

What about ISO Latin/Cyrillic 5?  I found the Minix book by AST is in a
Russian book catalog and will be printed in Russian.  Will not they
need Russian (Cyrillic) characters?  The problem with this standard is
that the high control characters (0x80-0x99) are apparently not used
for printable characters.  These 32 characters could possibly be
assigned to many of the non-ascii West European letters (ISO 5 already
includes East European letters).
					Dave Lawyer